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...denied that our indolent college life, with its short-cuts to pleasure, with the ease of spending an evening at the theatre or idling away an afternoon in chatter and smoke, is an open temptation to passing pleasures. We must be unusually strong if these wayside temptations do not lure us aside, leaving upon our characters the indelible imprint of a flabby character...
...most pleasing and successful part of the magazine is its cover an artistic photograph of the facade Widener Library, taken by moonlight by R. H. Norweb '16. Even the diabocal printer, with all his little devils, he failed in his attempt to lure from the skilful piece of photography its beauty and grace. It is an unusual and inspiring view of the great hall of tomes...
Among the attractions at the theatres in New York Saturday night after the Princeton game, there will be the following: Hippodrome, "America"; Winter Garden, "Pleasure Seekers"; Shubert, Forbes-Roberston, "Hamlet"; Maxine Elliot's Theatre, "The Lure"; 39th Street Theatre, "At Bay"; Cort, "Peg o' My. Heart"; Wallack's, Mr. Cyril Maude, in different plays; Empire. Ethel Barrymore, in "Tante"; Astor, "Seven Keys to Baldpate"; Lyceum, Grace George, in "Half an Hour", preceded by "The Younger Generation"; Geo. M. Cohan's Theatre, "Potash and Perimutter"; Eltinge, "Within the Law"; Long Acre, "Adele"; Belasco, "The Auctioneer"; Republic, "The Temperamental Journey"; Knickerbocker, Donald...
...canvass of the Senior class has shown that the lure of business has attracted more than twice as many Seniors as any other occupation. Seventy-eight of the class of 1913 at present intend to engage in business operations as their life occupation, while law with the next highest total has forty-two men. Thirty-four men propose to teach and twenty-six will go into engineering. Sixteen men have elected banking, fifteen chemistry and fourteen aspire to become physicians. Eleven Seniors will engage in manufacturing, ten will be farmers and ten will be ministers. Study, architecture, journalism, diplomacy, forestry...
...chief distinction of the number lies in the fiction. C. V. Wright's "The Good Love" is a treatment of the theme of the struggle in a man's affections between the love of a woman and the lure of "the old trail." It is clearly conceived and vividly presented. Mr. Wright is clearly very sensitive to atmosphere, and at times tempted to deal with it to excess, even when it is an essential part of the story. His style would gain in masculinity by a greater restraint in the use of adjectives. In "The Ominous Tract"--a somewhat oracular...